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Literary review/summary! [nerd heaven]; “On Monsieur’s Departure”
Topic Started: Nov 2 2006, 09:23 PM (2,070 Views)
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Read it here --> http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/departure.htm

Like many poets of the Renaissance Era, Elizabeth I demonstrates the theme of unrequited love in her poem “On Monsieur’s Departure.” In the first few lines, she writes “I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate.” These lines show that Elizabeth has some emotion (love) toward someone, but is afraid to show it – possibly because she was the ruler of a major world power of the time, and it might have been considered a sign of weakness. This theme is also continued on throughout the rest of the poem. The beginning of the second stanza starts out “My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it.” She feels this emotion toward someone, but whenever she tries to follow it, the emotion leaves; or perhaps she tries to hide it.

In this poem, Elizabeth I used Iambic pentameter, which is a series of strong and weak syllables throughout the poem. The rhyme scheme in this poem is ABABCC, which was one of the popular rhythm schemes at the time. The whole unrequited love theme is ironic, but especially in this work because the speaker feels as if she cannot show emotion, not that the emotion is not being reflected back from the other person.
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No thank you. I prefer to leave the reading at school :)
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